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I 7 : 0 F 1 ! M :M J W $J£¿ ^Tr 1 S ^ - \ j \ ! i p . i i 7 : 0 f 1 ! M :M j W $j£¿ ^tr 1 "1 £—- *• '¿affä CAPITOL NEWS PAGE 3 G q ik to l news Oops! Kenton Insists Published Monthly by CAPITOL PUBLICATIONS, INC. Sunset ond Vine, Molly wood 28,C olif. Printed in U. S. A. Surface 'Innovations’ Will Tour Stan Kenton helped dissolve the snow and ice of the December EDITED BY DAVE DEXTER, JR. blizzards when he got on the telephone in December and warmed m up the wires with a call to the Cap News offices in Hollywood. "That | This Was News — New Year's Day, 1941 story," he yelled, "on page 3 sounds like I've junked our 1951 'In n o ­ vations' tour with a concert orchestra, and it's dead wrong. We are Some said he had flipped, hiring an unknown, but Che; definitely going out next Sept 15, with even more fiddles than we Barnet defied his managers and snagged Lena Horne to used last winter and with even more ambitious music. with his band. She was called Helena then. The ndi , . I ii rUTPut misthis in your wieei,sheet," ixemunKenton uiueieu.ordered. "Wevve have already sent mou rned for Hal Kemp, who died in a car crash near Mac;; . \ , . , n • l - l /m . F-----t ^n^irn $3,000 in advance money to rent the halls m which we'll do our Cal., just four days before Christmas. Frank Sinatra,! .; concerts. And we intend to have a better tour than last year's. Make Stafford, Connie Haines and the Pied Pipers were singing . , . ir._ ..... , Tom Dorsey's band at the Meadowbrook in Jersey, but Tom „ it* P'—plain—I l have NOT junked,unked the concert orchestra."orchestra far from satisfied. He took on another canary, who todcf Stan s dance band-h. admitted he was still leading one—w ill known as Marie McDonald of the films. Bunny Berigan's: °P*" Hollywood Palladium on Feb. 20 instead o f m March as tempt to revive "Peg O' My Heart" on a record flopp ed-he « Previous y announced And Dave Dexter of the Cap News hopes big • , Nil •. xu AcrAD dxai i Stanley has cooled ott by then, six years too soon with it. The ASCAP-BMI imbroglio m 1 keeping the air filled with old public domain and third-rate Rl 1% I songs—a really despairing time for all who love music. 91 | | j LfltACf RffTHAt RffUfj Artie Shaw, red hot, drew $10,000 a week in theaters and 3 .............................. featured on the Burns & Allen show. Stan Kenton defid, Charlie Barnet popped up with another gimmick ,n Hollywood deserted the piano chair in the Earl Carroll pi. band .0 star, 1 ' 5 V.’? h" S' at lo"9 laSt' f ° - d a start ing r _ . r .. * . , . , new orchestral style. The M ab is leading another new band, this time nmg h.s own outfit for the following June. And latch U huge aggregotion of 21 musicians. And the gimmick; as he ca,|s it Lionel Hampton, interviewed by Down Beat m Vancouver, fljf¡s v0;cing a soprano sax with a string section Barnet waxed Hs firsf asserted that swing was dying. "I don't want to be in onkl records w ith the new g ro u p on Dec 4 fo r C ap ito l, and Carlos Gastel funeral," Hamp said. "I'm going to get me the sweetest W signed on as personal manager of the new Mab mob a few days on this continent. I'm hiring three fiddles." i later. In recent months, Barnet alternately fronted small, large and The Russells Benny Goodman employed Cootie Williams, Fletcher Hera ¡"-between bands. But this one, he says, "is it." They've moved to New York . son, Charlie Christian and Helen Forrest, and he's never l«s gang as great in the 10 years that followed. The Modern# joined Glenn Miller, who was even bigger than Shaw and Good­ Andy, Della Russell Lock Their man at the box-office. Vaughn Monroe, at the Boston Stfllfer, had a jumping dance band which featured, along with to peters Al King, Bobby Nichols and Dino Digeano, Trump#. California House, Move East Vaughn Monroe! Because of the acclaim given is really jumping these days. Bing Crosby won all the polls as the favorite male crooned« their act in New York radio, thea­ We'd be crazy not to go back you know how the gals ranked? Helen O'Connell was first fi^ ter and television circles last fall, there—we have no idea when lowed in order of popularity, by Billie Holiday, Dinah A n d y and Della Russell zipped we'll return to the west coast." Helen Forrest, Mildred Bailey, Marion Hutton and Ginny Swi?f| back to their California home last Doris Day was ranked 19th and Peggy Lee, Kay Starr, MarpJ month, packed their wardrobes, locked the door of their big En­ Allen Takes The Whiting and Jo Stafford w ent unplaced. Don Byas jp cino house, and returned to New Count Basie at the New York Apollo. Took over the tenor» York for a "visit" which may Freshmen East of a guy named Lester Young, who had only helped make extend to "a year and maybe The Four Freshmen were se­ combo one of the best in 25 years. lo n g e r." lected by Steve Allen to accom­ The big songs included "Frenesi," "I Hear a Rhapsody," 'j|P; Andy and his wife have de­ pany him to New York and be I Go," "Down Argentine W ay" and "Practice Makes Perfect."M1 veloped a sock singing act which featured on Allen's new CBS TV BABY, IT'S COLD—even in C ali­ the smart money said Woody Herman would have the "b a p includes his impressions of other show. Bob Hopkins took Allen's fornia. Marilyn Monroe models a HOSS LOVERS Freddy M a rtin crooners, and even a bit of hoof­ post with KNX in Hollywood, a quilted parka, just delightful, she the year," which he did, in my book. Les Brown w as stan*!i and Harry James are in their ing. In N ew York, the Russells m idnight humor session which thinks, for wiener bakes at the and so were his musicians, but they never once considered t#S glory as 1951 dawns. Both own soon will have their own jockey Allen, in three years, built into beach in January. A one-time in the towel. The armed forces had taken a fe w musiiM racing bangtails and Santa show, and they'll be appearing one of the top programs west of singer, born in California, Mari but Pearl Harbor was still eleven long months in the future [ Anita ■J s winter season just opened, on TV regularly, too. Chicago. The Freshmen, w ho re­ lyn now is a dram atic actress at Yep, if I knew then what I know now. May 1951 be I$ ‘f a[t.'n . ^as been spending------------3 m ost wv/...Both A ndy w..vand Della have cord for Capitol, will provide 20th-Fox. Maybe you saw her in Of his tim e I IT Q n n C vm — _ ! _ * _ _ _ I* I . / ' I * r ,s *‘me 'n San Francisco since lived in California a ll their lives, music fo r Steve, w ho plays a "All About Eve." summer. But, QS p0 |nfS out, "N e w York batch of 88 himself. CAPITOL NE CAPITOL NEWS PAGE 4 PAGE 5 Æ»' l ì , «m1Ar I _______ _ \ EAST 1 i » S 9 I s * rî< ,ly & S in g e r s u4 Ü l1, s DOROTHY SHAY soon JOE VENUTI THE BIG band boom which was predicted for the In Down Beat Magazine will have her chance in fall of 1949 never quite made it, although there "Most of the so-called grec films. The sophisticated hillbilly were and still are unmistakable signs of better times for musicians. ¡azz musicians are just imitators from Florida has been signed for The only important ones are tk' The situation, now th a t 1951 is here, is much the same as it was a fat, important leading role in creators — the ones who creole: three, five and even 10 years ago. None of the new crews, led by "The Real McCoy" which goes their own styles with their o»i youngsters, has topped old-timers like the Dorsey brothers, Kenton, into production late in January ideas . Duke Ellington, fo Herman, James, Brown, Lombardo, Kaye and Kyser in p opularity. at Universal-International Stu­ original Goodman band, Glee The old guys still have a certain box-office pull; w hile not as big dios. M iller—I'd even include Guy loo' as they enjoyed a decade ago, the cold fact is that none of the Miss Shay will share billing, of bardo. And Stan Kenton. Tie newer aggregations is drawing any better. course, with Abbott and Costello, were, and still are, great becaue It is still a singer's market. Guys and gals who chant and croon the stars. They get involved in they created o rig in a l styles c remain more popular than the straight bands. But the trend back to what the studio describes as a their own. There's your or-; dance bands, although slow and wavering at times, is still a trend "very funny" Kentucky mountain swer to what's wrong with mue as the new year commences.
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